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WorksheetsAge of Anxiety (1919-1939)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What idea characterized the Age of Anxiety in Europe from 1919-1939?
all life is miserable & there is no hope
advancements in life were made with a general pessimism
Europeans saw the decline of Western civilization as imminent
Enlightenment ideas were thrown out the window
Which writer believed that humans have a crisis of mind that develops constant anxiety?
Henri Bergson
Georges Sorel
Paul Valery
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Friedrich Nietzsche argued that
people have minds that are cruelly injured
rational thought should be emphasized more
immediate experiences are just as important as reason
reason & democracy all stifle individual progress
Which writer of the time expressed that your immediate experiences are as important as developing reason?
Paul Valery
Henri Bergson
Georges Sorel
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The revolutions against current thought split into 2 groups. They were the
existentialists & pessimists
empiricists & positivists
empiricists & existentialists
positivists & pessimists
Logical empiricists believed that
life is defined through actions
atoms are made of smaller molecules
philosophy is the only clarification of thought
humans should seek to define the issues of the time
Existentialists believed that
life is defined by your actions
philosophy is the main area for study
God speaks through human actions
atoms are made of smaller molecules
The founder of the modern empiricist movement was
Jean Paul Sartre
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Albert Camus
Karl Barth
Which of these was NOT an existentialist of the Age of Anxiety?
Martin Heidegger
Jean Paul Sartre
Gabriel Marcel
Albert Camus
Which Christian theologian rejected formal religious institutions & said God could speak to anyone at any time?
Karl Barth
Soren Kierkegaard
Jacques Maritain
Gabriel Marcel
The first major discovery of the New Physics was
radium emits subatomic particles
atoms are made of smaller molecules
matter & energy are different forms of the same thing
time & space are relative
The scientist who discovered that subatomic particles do not have a consistent weight was
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
Marie Curie
Ernest Rutherford
The Father of Quantum Physics is
Ablert Einstein
Max Planck
Ernest Rutherford
Werner Heisenberg
The scientist who helped identify seven different subatomic particles was
Werner Heisenberg
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
The scientist who determined that electron behavior cannot be predicted was
Werner Heisenberg
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
Max Planck
